[Canada] Gay rights 1, free speech 0

National Post ^ | 30 March 2004

[MegaSilver]

Canada is fast becoming a beacon of militant totalitarian atheism. I fear the future...

[South40]

It's Canada; do you expect any different?

[speedy]

Does this mean if someone says hateful things against Christians or Conservatives, they can be sent to jail? Doesn't this cut both ways? And what precisely is the definition of "hateful" anyway?

[B Knotts]

"Hate" is whatever the left decides it is.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping - It's official. Saying anything negatives about homosexuality will now be a crime up north.

Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.

[Unam Sanctam]

This is frightening. How long will it take for religious and speech rights in our Constitution to be vitiated?

[Spok]

"worry the new law will serve to ban the Bible, the Koran and other holy texts as hate literature'

The only danger is to the Bible. Once terrorists kill a couple more thousand innocents, I'm sure the Koran will become required reading in Canadian public schools.

[oldtimer]

Canada - and I was thinking of emigrating there if Kerry gets elected.

Recently bought a lot on an island in BC area, and ... osht.

[victoryatallcosts]

No one will ever be convicted of saying anything hateful about conservatives or Christians. A few years ago one Liberal MP told the House of Commons that there were "crosses being burned in Prince George as we speak" (or something like that).

Don't be silly: hate laws are only for conservatives. I'm waiting to see how long before they try to criminally prosecute someone. Frankly, I'm tempted to file a crminal complaint that, since a local bookstore stocks the Bible, it is "trafficking in hate literature" just to see if the police would respond. But I'm afraid that the complaint would stick.

Hopefully the US doesn't pass any such law as, until it does, Canadians prosecuted for "inciting hatred" against homosexuals could make an asylum claim in the United States. Or, so I'm told.

[MegaSilver]

This is frightening. How long will it take for religious and speech rights in our Constitution to be vitiated?

With Sandra O'Traitor and her fellow justices illegally conspiring with foreign governments as to how to rule on cases, who knows?

[MegaSilver]

Does this mean if someone says hateful things against Christians or Conservatives, they can be sent to jail? Doesn't this cut both ways?

I seriously doubt it.

[Unam Sanctam]

A few years back some feminazis trashed the Montreal cathedral and wrote hate-filled epithets. The authorities declined to treat it as a hate crime. The left does not consider hate crimes against Christians to be hate crimes.

[backhoe]

I don't have it handy, but I have saved somewhere a letter to the Washington Times, circa 1998 from a Canadian ( Susan Bates, I think ) who warned that "hate crime prevention laws" in Canada "made her a criminal if she pointed out that homosexual sex spreads AIDS." Indeed, she even said that citing statistics to back her claim was criminal.

I've been warning people about this ever since.

[Drango]

Oh Canada...

[speedy]

I did assume that this law is directed only at those who stand to the right of center, and that it never occurred to the people who support it that it could be used against them if applied logically (which it would not be, obviously). Assuming you are a Canadian, my hat is off to you for fighting what must be a lonely battle. Best of luck.

[yankeedame]

Saying anything negatives about homosexuality will now be a crime up north.

Tsk-tsk-tsk, it's not that simple. Its, "Saying anything perceived, assumed, and/or considered negative about homosexuality will now be a crime up north."

[victoryatallcosts]

Though, in one rare case, they were used against an Indian leader. That was rather exceptional.

Of course, he made a speech in which he declared that "Hitler was right" and talked at length about "frying Jews."

That fellow, by the way, was a holder of the Order of Canada. Sort of our version of the Medal of Freedom.

Nice country we have here.

[sergeantdave]

It looks like a few provinces in Canada need to succede. Who's going to stop them? Are the liberal, Maoist females from Toronto going to hop on their brooms and bomb Alberta? Time for the men to show these NOW nags and their girly-boys the kitchen, the pot and the scrub brush.

[DemWatch]

YES! Let's hear it for Canada --- the land where having the "wrong" opinion is a crime...really, who cares about free speech? [/sarcasm] Note to self...NEVER GO TO CANADA.

My sister will be in Québec all next week ... I'm waiting to hear the stories about this trip when she comes back...

[sergeantdave]

succede=secede (geez!)